Posts Tagged ‘ community ’

One of the things that excited me most when I joined VMware was how passionate and knowledgeable our user community is. After I joined, I remember getting on a plane once. I was wearing VMware apparel (aka ‘schwag’) and carrying a VMware laptop bag (aka more schwag, and yup I am all in on wearing/touting the logo). As I walked through the cabin, a gentleman looked up at me and said, “Are you just wearing the clothes or do you actually work for VMware?” I replied that yes, I worked for VMware. He said, “Thanks. I love your products!” I’ve worked for many companies, and worn their wardrobe, but this was one of the first occasions that doing so solicited such a response… and...

A year has passed since VMware launched Cloud FoundryTM , a major milestone in our mission to “Simplify IT”. We are focusing on simplifying application creation, deployment, and operations via an approach we call open platform as a service, or “ Open PaaS ” – an approach that gives developers choice as to where they deploy and run their applications. Cloud Foundry debuted on April 12th 2011 as an open source project and has since garnered broad industry support, providing developers with a choice of frameworks, application services and multi-cloud deployment options. Cloud Foundry lets developers focus their energy on building applications while infrastructure is transparently delivered as a service. We are celebrating Cloud Foundry’s first birthday today...

“May you live in interesting times…” – Ancient Chinese curse/proverb These are indeed interesting times for all of us, particularly so for IT as it undergoes one of the bigger changes in its young history. And this change permeates all aspects of IT: datacenters, clients, and even application development. The goal of this new community site is to provide a forum for discussing these changes. My hope is that we’ll all be able to help the industry navigate through and fully benefit from this transition. Next Tuesday I have the privilege of presenting the VMworld kickoff keynote with our CEO Paul Maritz. We’ll share our vision for cloud computing and how the “New IT Stack” must be delivered across three distinct layers: Integrated Infrastructure...